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Friday news roundup: reporter spies and Bryce Canyon coal mine
High Country News (blog)
The environmental blog ClimateWest, calculates that the four percent gas escape equates to adding one year's worth of 3 million fuming cars to the atmosphere. Listen to this. Areas of Bryce Canyon National Park possess such serenity that natural sound ...


The Anacostia River can again be swimmable and fishable
Greater Greater Washington
The Anacostia should be a community asset: a river safe for swimming and fishing, per the federal Clean Water Act. In many ways the Anacostia River is not forgotten anymore, but rather a well-kept secret for the recreational opportunities it does offer ...


New York Times (blog)

Walk in the Park: Encouraging Physical Activity in Communities
New York Times (blog)
How often do you and your family walk or bike for fun and recreation? Then, explain that they will now read an article about some of the ways communities can make their streets safer and more appealing for pedestrians and bicyclists.


Veteran protests flag burning at OccupyMaine camp
Portland Daily Sun
By David Carkhuff Blogs and Facebook pages are ablaze with debate after OccupyMaine camper Harry Brown lit an American flag on fire Monday at the protest group's Lincoln Park encampment. But there's one Mainer who said he felt spurred into doing more ...

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Arune, Angsty L.A. Singer, Allegedly Runs Over Eaton Canyon Park Employee for ...
LA Weekly (blog)
A "Recreation Service Leader" who was checking the Eaton Canyon Nature Center for homeless encampments spotted Arune Kavaliauskaite's unleashed dog ... ... running freely around the park, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Parks Bureau.

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Super Bowl: The View from the Jets
New Yorker (blog)
Sports as recreation, he concludes, barely makes sense; sports as self-persecution does not. This is so, and I am inclined in these early morning hours to think that, far from being warmly “connected,” as I wrote last time, team-love simply reflects ...

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